Incorporating mental imagery into geospatial environments for narrative visualizations

IF 2.1 3区 地球科学 Q2 GEOGRAPHY
Ronny A. Rowe, Antoni B. Moore
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Abstract

Methods for evaluating cognitively inspired geospatial interfaces have been important for revealing and helping solve their cognitive and usability issues. We argue that this is now true of interfaces in GIScience that deliver narrative visualizations, including 3D virtual narrative environments. These spaces allow for controlled conditions and realistic natural settings, where spatio‐temporal data can be collected and used to ascertain how well an interface design fulfilled a given narrative function. This study investigates the function of a cognitively inspired geospatial interface (Future Vision) that aimed to determine how mental images can be situated in geospatial environments and used to convey narratives that improve user cognition and decision‐making. The results of a two‐alternative forced‐choice (2AFC) decision‐making task showed that participants using future thinking guidance (mental images as a split‐second display of correct path choice) had statistically significant improvements in their task completion times, movement speeds and 2AFC decision‐making, compared to the unguided control group. Implications of the results include benefits for cue‐based navigation of real and conceptual spaces in GIScience. Future research can improve the interface design by modifying the interface code to reduce visual loss caused by eye blinks and saccades.
将心理想象融入地理空间环境,实现叙事可视化
评估受认知启发的地理空间界面的方法对于揭示和帮助解决其认知和可用性问题非常重要。我们认为,现在地理信息系统科学中提供叙事可视化(包括三维虚拟叙事环境)的界面也是如此。这些空间可以提供可控条件和逼真的自然环境,在这些环境中可以收集时空数据并用于确定界面设计在多大程度上实现了特定的叙事功能。本研究调查了一个受认知启发的地理空间界面("未来视界")的功能,旨在确定如何将心理图像置于地理空间环境中,并用于传达叙事,从而改善用户的认知和决策。双项强制选择(2AFC)决策任务的结果表明,与无指导的对照组相比,使用未来思维指导(心理图像作为正确路径选择的瞬间显示)的参与者在任务完成时间、移动速度和 2AFC 决策方面都有统计学意义上的显著改善。研究结果的意义包括:在地理信息系统科学中,基于线索的真实和概念空间导航将受益匪浅。未来的研究可以通过修改界面代码来改进界面设计,以减少眨眼和眼球移动造成的视觉损失。
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Transactions in GIS
Transactions in GIS GEOGRAPHY-
CiteScore
4.60
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8.30%
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116
期刊介绍: Transactions in GIS is an international journal which provides a forum for high quality, original research articles, review articles, short notes and book reviews that focus on: - practical and theoretical issues influencing the development of GIS - the collection, analysis, modelling, interpretation and display of spatial data within GIS - the connections between GIS and related technologies - new GIS applications which help to solve problems affecting the natural or built environments, or business
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